The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from varlOun SOuFcaa
PERsoNAL ANp PoL1rIcA1.


New York Herald that he is willing that
all letters between himself and the late
General Logan should be made public
O'BRIEN and Ktlbride are booked to sail
from Ireland on the 22d for Canada to car
ry the eviction WARM to Lord Lansdewne's
home precincts.
THE Secretary Of the Navy issued an or
der on the 10Th detatching Commodore
McCann from the presidency Of the Naval
Advisory Board and ordere I him to COM
mand the Boston Navy Yard.
Ok the 10Th funeral services over the
remains OF Chief-Justice Cartier took
place at his late reside~c3 ia Washington
The remains were taken to Cleveland, D.,
for burial.
JOHN BRIGuT, of England, in a recent
letter to a gentleman ia Washington, says:
Il hope your future Presidents may be as
wise and firm and patriotic as your pres
snt chief magistrate"
ALEXANDER Miro IELU, president of the
Milwaukee q st. Paul railroad, die1 on
the afternoon of the 10Th Of pneumonia, at
the Hoffman House New York City. His
death clused much excitement in Wall
street.
LORD SALISBURY, in his Primrose speech
on the Goth, was very severe in his
criticism Of Gladstone's course on the
Irish Grimes bill and his former home
rule record.
GENERAL TERRY will temporarily as
sumo command OF the Department OF the
Missouri until successor to General
Wilcox is appointed
CHARLES p. YoUNG, OF New York Citv,
has been appointed secretary of the
Pacific Railway Investigating Commis-
sion.
GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT, whose pro
motion has been announced, will not re-
tire TO- age for thirteen years, as he can
remain in active service. under the law,
until June Is, 1900 There is a very strong,
chance, therefore, that he will be pro
NOTED to MHior-General before retire
ment.
TnE Queen Of tho Hawaiian Kingdom
arrived at san Francisco on the Goth, en-
route to Europe.
Mr.. BIGGAR proposes to sue the London
Times for libel in conneetion with the al
legged Parneu letter and kindred publica-
tions, thus bringing the question of gem
uineness Of the letter before the courts.
DR. HOSEA BALLoU EATON died at Rock
port, Ne, on the night of the 18th, from
blOod-p poisoning, contracted I've years ago
while engaged in his professional duties.
He was president OF the Maine Homn)-
pathic Society a~d vice-presideut of the
American Institute OF Hom@ )pathy.
DIR. WARREN, or lstOn, is at Rome.
studying the practicabiIity Of establish
ing an American institute of Roman his
tory and archaeology, toward founding
which, he says. an American lady has
contributed $1,000.
THE remains of Lieutenant Danen-
hover were shipped from Annapolis to
Washington on the 21st.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has ordered
a resurvey of the Las Vegas land grant in
New Mexico.
COLONEL MOORE, Consul General to the
City OF Mexico, leaves for his post of duty
on the 25th.
~ 1r-e L
master in the United States army AMI
brother of James G. Blaine, died at Hot
Springs, Ark.
OK tho 21st a French Official was de-
coyed into German territory and arrested
by German police, charged with membsr-
ship in the French Patriotic League.
Great excitement is reported TO exist in
Alsace- Lorraine over the affair IL has
. also created a profound sensation in
Paris.
OK the 21st James Russell Lowell sailed
from Boston for Europe on the steamer
Pavonia. 1t is understood that he declines
90 be a candidate for overseer Of Harvard
University, for which he has been nom
mated.
AT its session in Washington on the
21st the National Aca1emy of Sciences
elected three new members The scient-
lists thus hOnored are Prof. BOwditch, OF
Harvard; Prof. Mendenhau, of Terre
Brunswick, Ca.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin has called a
meeting for the purpose of taking steps
toward the erection Of a National memo
rial TO Mr.. Gladstone.
MAJOR +. W. BENTON, of the Ninth cav
airy, was recently sentenced by court
martial TO be dismissed from the service
for drunkenness. The President has com
mute1 the sentence to onS years suspen-
sion from rank and duty on haH-pay.
SEVENTEEN years ago Bsnj thinner
man strayed away from home in Reading,
Pa On tho 2lst he returned and found
his wife, who believed him dead, living
with a second husband. IT is said he will
find Mrs. Zimmerman willing to be re-
claimed.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says that he does not
desire general election to Parliament
until the English mind is as ripe on the
Irish question as the Welsh and Scotch
b. minds are, but that time is rapidly ad-
vancIng. Anyhow" he says, II am
prepared 70 face anything to defeat coer-
cion.'
INDIAN AGENT OSBORNE, who recently
killed +. j. Smith, the Indian farmer at
The OtOe agency, has had a preliminary
trial before a United States commissioner
there. The testimony brought out at the
srial exonerates Osborne, and the COM
mis- sloner says he has no doubt Osborne
was fully Justih5d in his action.
JUSTICE WOODS, Of the United States
supreme Court, is seriously i'll at Kansas
City, No.
TIE statement comes direct from the
President him mcolf that he does not want
and will not accept a nomination.
a LETTER has be3n received from Prof.
3oldwin Smith, Of Oxford University,
favoring a commercial union between
Canada and the United States.
ARCuBIsHoP CORRIGAN has warned
.n-H s.E
DIR. McGlynn and criticisms unfavorable
to those who removed him.
WIN. O'BRIEN, editor of United ireland,
was TO sail for Canada on the 24th, to
speak against Lord Lansdowne's tenantcy
evictions.
MIR. ANDREw CARNEGIE, the millionaire,
Of Pittsburgh, Pa, was united in mar
riage on the % to Miss Louise Whitfield,
eldest daughter OF Mrs. Fanny ID. Whit
field, at the residence OF the brides mother,
IN New York They left for a European
tour on the steamship Fulda.
BEN RICHARDSON, who owns about hall
OF Harlem, and II several times a million
aire, is the m an wlo was recently swindled
by the ''gold brick trick in New Y ork.
The gilded copper bars which he thought
were worth $1,000 are now at the assay
office on exhibition.
WM b. MIrCuELL, president of the Ex-
change Bank, of Detroit, Mich, has disap-
pNNlNA WtbA aAt NAl~ A11N9 hA Tue NouCGEuY
leaving an anxious lot OF creditors and
depositors behind HIM.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
A TORPEDO eNp' 'od sd under the torpedo
launch hull on the l9th in the harbor Of
Annapolis, Nd, and sunk her in one mia
ute and q half EIsign Muir was in
charge, and several naval cadets were on
board. but they were al taken on IN
tafety by an ovs.erman.
LIEUTENANT JON W. DANEN uOWER, Of